Chris Ofili @ Tate Britain

I love a trip to the Tate Britain as the permanent collection is fantastic- from Turner and Rossetti to Gilbert & George and Henry Moore.

The latest exhibition is by Chris Ofili- who has won the Turner prize and experimented with all sorts of types of art. He's also massively influenced by hip hop and tickets to see this show are only £5 FOR THOSE UNDER 26. He recently said:

“I was drawn to (William) Blake’s image first as a watercolour…At the same time I was interested in how Snoop Dogg could sing quite vulgar lyrics with a sweet, smooth West Coast voice, in the coming together of the rough and the smooth. I was curious about trying to make older ideas contemporary and new, and somehow have a relationship to hip-hop culture.”

FIND OUT MORE HERE: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/Ofili/

And he Ofili a pretty decent list of favourite hip hop albums/ tracks. He told us they are:
(not in order of preference):

Notorious BIG – 10 crack commandments
Common – Heaven somewhere
Method Mad – Bring the pain
Public Enemy – Public Enemy number 1
Erykah Badu – The Healer
Snoop Dogg – Gin & Juice
Wu Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M
Jay-Z - Blueprint
A Tribe called Quest – The low end theory
The Roots – Clones
NAS – Illamtic
Mos Def - Black on both sides
Talib Kweli – Reflection eternal
Dizzee Rascal - Jezebel

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